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UNDEAD REVISITED

Todd Stewart, Brandon Hodge, and Steve Kenson

Faces of the Dead

Bodak

Nightshade

Unfortunate creatures

who witness acts of

unspeakable planar evil

and have their bodies

destroyed and remade by

the experience, returning

as hungry shells.

Colossi formed in the

lightless spaces where

the Shadow Plane and

Negative Energy Plane

meet, eager to blot out

the stars and spread ruin

across the multiverse.

Devourer

Ravener

Twisted spirits who

return from beyond the

planes as skeletal giants

capable of imprisoning

souls in their chests and

using soul energy to

power their magic.

Undead dragons wrapped

in the screaming soul-

stuf of those people

they devour, who must

constantly feed on the

innocent to sustain their

parodies of life.

Graveknight

shadow

Battleield champions of

ultimate cruelty whose

depraved acts bind them

to their armor for all

eternity, unable to die

and hungry for ever-

greater atrocities.

Greedy spirits whose

own mean-spirited

miserliness shrinks their

souls, bringing them

back ater death as some

of the most despicable

undead monstrosities.

lich

spectral Dead

Powerful spellcasters

who bind their souls

into valuable artifacts

called phylacteries so

that they may live forever,

continuing their evil

machinations.

Ghostly apparitions

forced to exist without

bodies, including the

forlorn banshees, insane

allips, dark-souled

wraiths, and wrathful yet

intelligent spectres.

Mohrg

Wight

The spirits of serial

killers and those who

exult in the taking of life,

brought back as intestine-

wrapped skeletons to

once more walk the

streets and thin the herd.

Broken corpses hungry

for the souls of the

living, doomed to

their lonely existences

through a wide variety of

tragedies, malevolence,

or unwilling possession.

UNDEAD REVISITED

A Pathfinder Campaign Setting Supplement

This book works best with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook .

Although it is suitable for play in any fantasy world, it is optimized for use in

the Pathfinder campaign setting.

table of Contents

Introduction

Nightshade

Bodak

Ravener

Devourer

Shadow

Graveknight

SpectralDead

Lich

Wight

Mohrg

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Credits

Authors • Eric Cagle, Brian Cortijo, Brandon Hodge,

Steve Kenson, Hal Maclean, Colin McComb, Jason Nelson,

Todd Stewart, and Russ Taylor

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PATHFINDER CAMPAIGN SETTING: UNDEAD REVISITED

THE DEAD WILL RISE

W hen we set out to make C lassic Hor rors Revisited ,

tome, you’ll f ind nothing but undead, those tragic souls

transformed by evil from beyond the mortal world or

cursed by their actions in life to rise again after death.

The hideous creatures presented here are not simply the

easily named bogeymen of children’s tales, but the darker

denizens of roleplaying history, the familiar festering faces

that have plagued players of fantasy games for decades.

we quickly discovered that we had a problem.

No matter how we tried to divide things up,

there were simply too many monsters lurking beyond the

lights of our campf ires. Eventually, we decided to let that

book focus on the so-called “gothic” monsters, the creatures

of classic horror f ilms and stories. Yet we knew that we

weren’t f inished with horror. Not by a long shot.

Though that book contained entries on the

classic skeletons, ghosts, and zombies of

horror history, the book you hold is more

specif ic. Inside this moldering, grave-rotted

Unsealing the tomb

Presented here is a brief overview of the undead covered in

this book. Though each is explored here in depth, the basic

statistics for these monsters can be found in the Pathfinder

RPG Bestiary (devourer, lich, mohrg, shadow, spectre,

wight, wraith), Bestiary 2 (banshee, bodak, nightshades,

ravener), Bonus Bestiary (allip), and Pathfinder Adventure Path

#26 (graveknight). Both the allip and the graveknight will

also be available in the forthcoming Bestiary 3 .

Bodak : When mortals venture to the utmost depths

of unforgiving planes, they sometimes come across

knowledge so terrible or witness events so horrifying that

their very souls are consumed, killing them and then

reanimating them as the weird, smoke-eyed creations

called bodaks. Eric Cagle presents us with an in-

depth look at the nature, habits, and horrifying

origins of these planar terrors.

Devourer : Only the bravest and most powerful

adventurers dare step beyond the boundaries of the

known planes, into whatever darkness lies beyond.

Most who do so never return—yet some, especially the

evil ones, come back changed and twisted. Todd Stewart

introduces us to the dread devourers, insane emissaries

of the dark who draw their powers from the trapped souls

of mortals.

Graveknight : Some warriors are too arrogant to die. Hal

Maclean presents the terrifying graveknight, for whom

death is no barrier to the lust for battle and conquest.

Trapped within the armor they wore in life, graveknights

are nigh-unkillable masters of warfare, the battlef ield’s

answer to the craftier and more conniving lich.

Lich : The classic undead masterminds, liches are

spellcasters who bind their souls into special receptacles

called phylacteries, thus making themselves effectively

immortal. Though their f lesh may rot and stiffen, leaving

them skeletal horrors, their spirits live on, allowing them

to continue their foul research and machinations. Colin

McComb takes us inside the formidable brains of the

deathless magic-users, exploring both how and why they

seek their bizarre existences.

INTRODUCTION

Mohrg : Those who exult in the needless taking of life

sometimes return to the world after death as mohrgs,

skeletal monstrosities wrapped with freakish, animated

intestines. Brian Cortijo reveals the inner lives (or lack

thereof ) of the undead who hunt the streets, creating and

guiding their lesser spawn.

Nightshade : Where the Shadow Plane meets the Negative

Energy Plane, evil and darkness hold sway in vast and

lightless gulfs. When a f iend succumbs to the ravages of

this environment, the ensuing death can be the catalyst

for creating one of the most powerful undead. Todd Stewart

details the existence of the undead behemoths called

nightshades, monsters whose greatest goal is nothing less

than the destruction of all life.

Ravener : Unwilling to yield even to death itself, some

dragons seek immortality in a horrible transformation

into undead. Wrapped with the soul-energy of all those

they devour, these evil draconic tyrants must constantly

feed on life to keep their own existence and powers at their

peak. Russ Taylor explores the strengths and weaknesses

of the dreaded draconic raveners.

Shadow : Not even the grave can stop the greed of some

people. Driven by envy and covetousness, those misers and

thieves led to evil by their avaricious natures sometimes

fade away or return after death as shadows, dark ref lections

of their former selves. Steve Kenson brings us the truths

surrounding these undead silhouettes.

Spectral Dead : Not a single creature, but rather a whole

family encompassing allips, banshees, spectres, and

wraiths, these incorporeal undead may no longer have

physical bodies, but they can kill you all the same. Brandon

Hodge explains the differences between all four, from the

means by which they’re formed to the crazed obsessions

and emotions that drive them even after death.

Wight : Hungry for the spirits of the living, wights

resemble lesser undead such as zombies and skeletons—

but don’t let their rotting f lesh fool you, for behind their

burning eyes rests a grim intelligence. Jason Nelson reveals

the varied origins and motives of the sinister wight, and

how they can be turned to a crafty GM’s advantage.

Creating Undead

The spells animate dead , create undead , and create greater

undead account for methods by which spellcasters can

create a wide range of undead creatures—but the options

granted by these spells are limited. With the GM’s

permission, these can be adjusted to allow for the creation

of additional types of undead. Doing so requires additional

material components and spells (additional spells are cast

as part of the casting time of the undead creation spell, but

do not extend that spell’s casting time).

Note that some undead can never be created by create

undead or create greater undead. The methods by which these

undead can be created are given in their specif ic monster

write-ups. In the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary and Bestiary 2 ,

such undead include the following: ghost, lich, nightshade

(all), poltergeist, ravener, revenant, skaveling, vampire,

void zombie, and winterwight.

The following table summarizes what spells, minimum

caster levels, and additional material components are

needed to create other undead with animate dead , create

undead , or create greater undead .

Creating Undead

Undead Creature Spell to Create Min. CL Additional Requirements

Allip* create greater undead 15th insanity

Attic Whisperer create undead 13th crushing despair , fear , corpse of a humanoid child

Banshee create greater undead 20th fear , wail of the banshee , corpse of a female elf

Bodak create greater undead 20th must be cast in the Abyss

Crawling Hand create undead 11th severed hand of a Medium or smaller humanoid

Crawling Hand (giant) create undead 14th enlarge person , severed hand of a Large or larger humanoid

Crypt Thing create undead 16th teleport

Draugr create undead 12th —

Dullahan create undead 17th decapitated humanoid corpse

Greater Shadow create greater undead 19th shadow walk

Huecuva* create undead 11th corpse of a cleric (preferably an evil cleric)

Juju Zombie create undead 11th** enervation or energy drain

Skeletal Champion create undead 11th** enervation or energy drain

Totenmaske create greater undead 18th caster must be a cleric

Wight create undead 14th enervation

Witchfire create greater undead 19th corpse of a hag

* This creature is detailed in the Bonus Bestiary and the upcoming Pathinder Bestiary 3 .

** You must have a caster level greater than the HD of the undead to be created.

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